This is a recording of my Wednesday Dhamma talk streamed live every Wednesday at 12 noon eastern US time. This talk is on the purpose of the Buddha’s  teaching - to develop lasting peace and happiness. A related article is here: https://crossrivermeditation.com/buddha-taught-happiness/

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This a recording of our Saturday Morning Dhamma class at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey. Following a thirty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana Meditation, our sangha discussion is on The Five Hindrances and my talk introduces this week’s study of The Ratana Sutta.

Included in my talk is a reference to the Kalama Sutta and how ignorance of the Buddha’s teachings and a misunderstanding of true refuge often leads to continued suffering. Two of the references are to modern Buddhist lineages both intentionally developing a Buddhist practice that is a clinging together of many different and often contradictory teachings that only obscures and continues ignorance of the Buddha’s direct teachings.

This video was recorded on March 4, 2017. This class is part of a series from our 2016/2017 Truth of Happiness Dhamma Study based on my book The Truth of Happiness. Information on the book and personal Dhamma study is here: https://crossrivermeditation.com/

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This is a recording of a Dhamma talk on the importance of developing contentment and gratitude in Dhamma practice. This talk was presented in Clinton New Jersey on March 2, 2017. A related article is here: https://crossrivermeditation.com/contentment-and-gratitude-in-practice/

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This is a recording of my Wednesday Dhamma talk streamed live every Wednesday at 12 noon eastern US time. This talk is on the Kalama Sutta.In the Kalama Sutta the Buddha addresses greed, aversion and deluded thinking directly as a way of pointing out how other teachings fail to directly address the defilements, and in many cases inadvertently promote deluded behavior.

A related article is here: https://crossrivermeditation.com/the-kalama-sutta-a-refined-dhamma/

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This is a recording of our Tuesday evening Truth of Happiness Dhamma study sangha discussion on The Five Hindrances and Dhamma talk that introduces the eleventh week’s study of  The Three Refuges. This was recorded on February 28, 2017, at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey.

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Truth of Happiness Dhamma study sangha discussion on Karma and Rebirth and Dhamma talk that introduces the eleventh week’s study of  The Five Hindrances . This was recorded on February 25, 2017, at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey.

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This is a recording of our Tuesday evening Truth of Happiness Dhamma study sangha discussion on Karma and Rebirth and Dhamma talk that introduces the tenth week’s study of  The Five Hindrances. This was recorded on February 21, 2017, at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey.

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This is a recording of my Wednesday Dhamma talk streamed live every Wednesday at 12 noon eastern US time. This talk is on the Bahiya Sutta.The Bahiya Sutta teaches developing mindfulness of what is occurring moment by moment without attaching an ignorant view of self.

A related article is here: https://crossrivermeditation.com/the-mindfulness-of-bahiya/

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This is a dhamma talk on fear and anxiety arising during meditation. When meditation is practiced within the framework of the Eightfold Path the context of the Four Noble Truths brings understanding and guidance. This talk was recorded on February 16, 2017, in Clinton, New Jersey.

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This is a recording of our Saturday morning Truth of Happiness Dhamma study sangha discussion on Dependent Origination and Dhamma talk that introduces the ninth week’s study of  The Five Clinging Aggregates. This was recorded on February 11, 2017, at Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown New Jersey.

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